New Ulm weekly review., 1887-08-24

horses and an army OF servants.
The fashionable colored doctor Of Chica-
go is d. 81. Williams, and he is very rich. b
One man was killed and nine persons in
lured by careening OF a vessel in New York
harbor.
Christopher Cooper, member OF the
Chatsworth ILL.,, fire departments, who as
sisted to remove thirty three dead and
wounded from one car, working at the wreck
for eight hours, says: ! did not see any rob
bing, and don't believe there was any. In
many cases | saw men take the watches
that were hanging loose and put them in
the pockets where they belonged. Some
time the watches were torn from the chains
when we got to the bodies. found a brok-
EN- chain entirely loose and gave it to the
railroad man.
h Gen. Ferron, the new minister of war,
addressing the artillery school in Paris,
said: HE had accepted the Office because
he was convinced that serious causes OF
weakness in the military organization of
the country would continue SO long as
complex bills requiring years to carry out
the changes they proposed were presented
to parliament and because of his belief
that unless eficacious measures of detail
were in the meanwhile speedily adopted
the country might be exposed to the great
est dangers Parliament sympathized
with my fears and intentions and after
adopting two clauses OF the recruiting bill,
passed two less ambitious measures which
will add largely to the efficiency of the in
lew weeks instead OF years in accomplish
ment. intend to proceed in the same man.
ner with manners relating to the artillery
and engineers, and I feel convinced that
parliament will heartily assist me- and
TINS we will best insure the maintenance
OF peace"
The following pensions have been issued:
Wisconsin,: Widow OF j. B. Winslow,
Stevens Point; widow of j. Paliado
Wrightstown; widow of G. Umstette, Mil
waukee. Original: II. r. Heath, Elroy;
j. B. Winslow, (deceased) Stevens Point;
J. NJ. Lessing, Centralia; D. Wingard, Ham
lin; T. D. Wilcox, Trempelean; e. E. Hol-i
lembeck, Merrillan; j. p Mailery, White
hall; w. II. Joslyn, Richland Center; B.
Kingman, Baraboo NJ Monahan, Hudson.
Minnesota: S. Kieke. st. Augusta; F.
Schwartz, Buffalo Lake; E. D. Wilkins,
Olmstead
United seates Senator Riddleberger, who
was committed to jail for contempt OF
court was released by mob.
The White River Utes are on the war
path, and serious trouble is apprehended.
The fact is made known that W. Fl.
.Hocomb has resigned the position OF gen.
eral superintendent OF the Burlington &
Northern road.
tits announced that James B. Davis
superintendent OF the Ordnance foundry,
Washington navy yard, has been dismiss
ed, and that John A. Burton of Laurel
Me-, who has long been a mechanic in the
foundry, has been promoted to the vacancy.
The Aeronauts Mallet and Jovis made
an ascent in Paris, in the balloon Horla,
starting from the Lavilette Gas works
1t is presumed that their object is to pen
citrate to the greatest height at which it is
possible to live. After few hours voy-
age in the air the balloon decended, land
ing in the village Of Marche, Belgium. They
attained an altitude OF over z, 600 metres,
and were obliged to descend for want OF
ballast. The conditions were excellent.
except that NJ. Mallet tainted twice.
A body OF twenty-five to thirty masked
men rode into the town OF Leon, Iowa,
proceeded to the county jail and took out
James Reynolds, who criminally assaulted
Mrs. Noble near that place. The men
took him to a bridge just west OF town and
hung him over the railing. They knocked
the locks off five doors in order to get to
him, and where occupied over two hours
III the work. Before hanging him the mob
tried to get him to confess to the deed, but
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the rope around his neck and pushed him
over the edge OF the bridge. In a few min
utes he was dead. The mob then quietly
rode away, leaving him hanging there.
DR.. Curry, United States minister to
Spain, has returned home for short visit.
Applications were received at the treas
ury department. for the prepayment OF in
terest on registered bonds amounting to
$l2, 494, 600. The total amount OF bonds
on which advance interest is asked is now
$50, ,497, 600, of which amount $37.O24,-
$50 are per cents $12, O44. 400 4aa per
cents, and 1858, $50 Pacific railroad
bonds. The gross amount of interest on
these bonds is about $1,O53.95O.
The five juvenile Jesse Jameses who
skipped from Merrill, Wis, and were re-
ported captured at Stevens Point are still
at large, having escaped from the officers
and gone up the Wisconsin Central line
One OF the boys took advantage OF the
dead body OF his sister being in the house
to make his escape They had only about
$50 in cash on which to make their raid
to California.
Acting Secretary Muldrow has approved
the selection OF 82, sos acres OF land made
by the Chicago, St. Paul, Minneapolis q
Omaha road in Wisconsin. This does not
include any OF the lands involved in the
1llNCI1lH1Oy HueSGlOu ttISueO ny eA-OeudUOr
Thurman and Mr.. Brltton.
English railways have to bear the oner
GUS task in the way OF furnishing free
transportation to prominent individuals
and officials, as did the railroads in the
United States before the passage OF the
interstate commerce bill. writes Crawford
from London to the New York World
The troublein Bell county, KY, is proba-
bly, at an end, as Jack Turner, the last
Turner faction. has surrendered himself to
the lailor OF Bell county. He surrendered,
and a man whose name could not be learn
ed, charged with being an accomplice OF the
Turner's, surrendered himself to theauthor-
tiles. 1t is reported that the others OF the
band have disbanded and left the state.
Bishop Ireland scouts any disaffectiop
between German and Irish Catholics.
The United State circuit court holds
that exorbitant commissions on land CON
tracts are usurious and illegal.
James G. Flood. president of the Nevada
bank, is i'll at his Menlo Park home. His
physicians do not state the exact nature
OF his ailment but have recommended